The pre-registration process will commence 17:00GMT Thursday, August 2nd and will last for one hour - at that time A PUBLIC announcement OF OUR NEW NAME will be made, and at that point anyone is free to register whatever domains are available.

I was thinking about it and the team might want to re-evaluate the time limit here. I'm not saying it should be changed, but you have to admit, there are quite a few *ambo related URLS. I personally would allow 5 days for this. You wouldn't want those that have a *ambo domain to have ought against the time limit.

How about instead of telling them what the new name is so they can grab it just let mambo domain holders purchase the domain with the new name through opensourcematters? 10 bucks a pop or whatever, this way you can keep it secret and there's no 1 hour time factor.

Ah, jeez!
If the Team gave everyone 5 weeks, a couple of months and a handful of hours to sort their act out, there would still be someone who was kayaking in the Himalays and wanted it holding until they got back.
Guys, everyone's been asking for news, news, action... now a line has been drawn and the Team have been community-spirited enough to give a heads-up to concerned parties. Live with it... and make it work for ya! Where there's a will, there's a way!
John Mc
EDIT: Matthew posted while I was typing this... good idea!

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rjs wrote:
I was thinking about it and the team might want to re-evaluate the time limit here. I'm not saying it should be changed, but you have to admit, there are quite a few *ambo related URLS. I personally would allow 5 days for this. You wouldn't want those that have a *ambo domain to have ought against the time limit.

It's just a thought. Might consider it. Might not.

As i already said one hour isn´t a time limit, is a RUSH. ALL domain registrars will be flooded with new registrations.
I think we are ALL a community, why don´t you give us more hours to do these registrations? Just simply send us (*mambo* domain owners) an e-mail sooner, and all this will run smooth.

...my 0,02 cents

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Matthew Schultz wrote:
How about instead of telling them what the new name is so they can grab it just let mambo domain holders purchase the domain with the new name through opensourcematters? 10 bucks a pop or whatever, this way you can keep it secret and there's no 1 hour time factor.

We seriously considered doing this, however the time involved and the potential for mistakes/failures leading to legal ramifications (perhaps), mean't that our legal team advised us to go the way we did. We can only do our best

Matthew Schultz wrote:
How about instead of telling them what the new name is so they can grab it just let mambo domain holders purchase the domain with the new name through opensourcematters? 10 bucks a pop or whatever, this way you can keep it secret and there's no 1 hour time factor.

We seriously considered doing this, however the time involved and the potential for mistakes/failures leading to legal ramifications (perhaps), mean't that our legal team advised us to go the way we did. We can only do our best

We seriously considered doing this, however the time involved and the potential for mistakes/failures leading to legal ramifications (perhaps), mean't that our legal team advised us to go the way we did. We can only do our best

And by the way, I do not find it funy to pay for this domain a extra to an foreign land bank account and than wait till the transver permission is comming in, to transver name rights back to me, an than pay again to register the name to me.

So I believe, the way the Team choose is really good. It is only the time which is very short for registering domains all around the world. Some might not be even able to reach thiere hoster to get the domain registered in this time.

I agree with blogmaster2003 ....1 hour is not suffice for alot of people.

If the dev team is not going to register names but instead send the NEWNAME out an hour early they are giving some trust to those who have requested the name earlier.
I assume that there is some sort of ramification for registering a newname* *newname url if it is not yours. What can be done, I am not sure. I honestly hope that people in this someone in the community would not grab (newname)hut.com or (newname)solutions.com as we need to trust one another.

I feel the name should be realeased asap so those needing to secure the domains can do so.

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